Should I start Kyler Murray or Gunnar Helm in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Kyler Murray's market-based projection is 17.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 11th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 85th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyler Murray, and the board ranks him 75th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 18.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Gunnar Helm, and the board ranks him 74th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Kyler Murray has been on the field for 84 percent of MIN snaps, dropped back 151 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 151 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.

In Week 4 against MIA he completed 27 of 37 passes for 247 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 21 yards.

In Week 5 against NO he completed 24 of 29 passes for 229 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 54 yards.

In Week 7 against IND he completed 14 of 24 passes for 150 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 41 yards.

Through Week 7, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 78 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he was not given the ball.

In Week 7 against CLE he caught 3 of 4 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kyler Murray played 5 games and scored 80.8 PPR points, 16.2 a game, finishing QB38.

He threw for 962 yards on 161 attempts with 6 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 173 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 32.2 attempts a game at 6.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Gunnar Helm played 16 games and scored 91.7 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE31.

He caught 44 of 55 targets for 357 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 8.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Gunnar Helm was available for 11 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kyler Murray scored 16.2 PPR points a game and Gunnar Helm 5.7, 10.4 a game between them.

Kyler Murray finished QB38 and Gunnar Helm TE31, which are two different ladders.

Kyler Murray is a quarterback and Gunnar Helm a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kyler Murray is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Gunnar Helm.

What would change the answer

12.9 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.